The biggest mistake novice website owners make is going with big name, cheap shared hosts, GoDaddy, BlueHost, 123-reg, IONOS and similar. They have great cheap deals which are very tempting for new businesses. Most of these brands are owned by Hosting Group Europe and Endurance International Group. Why are these brands not ideal, just search [Read the full article…]
Migrate from multisite to standalone WordPress
These are my notes relating to migrating a multisite site to a stand alone WordPress install. I tried various options in the past, including manual file extract and database manipulation, through to using Duplicator Pro, none were easy or totally successful and often I’d resort to completely rebuilding the site and exporting / importing the [Read the full article…]
Calendar Wiz WordPress Plugin
Currently I can’t find a specific WordPress plugin for Calendar Wiz. Calendar Wiz is a paid for premium calendar service. I bit like Google Calendar on steroids, as it allows you lots and lots of customisation. I’m not 100% sure how popular Calendar Wiz is. It does offer Website integration plugins. But these are not [Read the full article…]
Example Quick PayPal Payments Form
How can I Embed a Google Doc in a WordPress Post or WordPress Page without a plugin?
To have a dynamic section from Google Docs as below simply create ( and share to editors as required) your Google Doc and go to File>Publish to Web in the Doc – select embed – Create your post of page and where you want the Google Doc add an html block and put the generated [Read the full article…]
Sage Business Cloud Accounting Review
I don’t normally write reviews cloud software, I’m more of a geek than an author and prefer writing code to English. In fact I could only manage a C grade at O-Level English but A’s for Maths and Physics, so nothing is surprising. What is in a name? Sage renamed their Sage One Accounting to [Read the full article…]
How to remove WP Bakery from WooCommerce shop page
Problem with jQuery date picker and The7 theme The issue The problem was a date picker ( jquery ui datepicker ) provided by a small add on plugin was not operating correctly on a WooCommerce shop page withing a theme that has baked in WP Bakery ( The7 theme ). The investigation The obvious place [Read the full article…]
Archiving old files after 18 months
In a WordPress installation I have an uploads folder that contains html files, that need to be archived away after 18 months. As the links are dynamically built I don’t need to worry about anything except moving them. If they were normal WordPress uploads that would be different. So in this case a simple monthly [Read the full article…]
Securing Gravity Forms Uploads
By default, Gravity Forms uploads files into the uploads folder, so by definition, these are readable by anyone. The file names are obscure, but that isn’t good enough if you are uploading personal information like proof of address. One solution is to create a ‘safe’ protected by authorisation (e.g. basic auth over SSL ), so [Read the full article…]
Hide a Google Form in a WordPress page until a box is ticked
This is an example of an embedded Google Form that is revealed only on ticking a box If you agree to this, tick the box and a form appears : Loading… This is how it is done: First get your ’embed code’ from your Google Form ( Form – Send – <> Embed HTML ) [Read the full article…]
